Pocket check-book



(No Model.)

G- B. PBRRI'GO. Pocket Check Book.

No. 231,497. Patented Aug. 24,1880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. PERRIGO, OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS.

POCKET CHECK-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,497, dated August 24, 1880. Application filed June 19, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES B. PERRIGO, of Bloomington, in the county of McLean, and in the State ot' Illinois. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Check- Books; and I do hereby declare that the i'ollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ot' reference marked thereon, making a part of this speciiication, and in which- Figure l represents a perspective view of my improved check-book when open; Fig. 2, a plan view, showing the manner of arranging the checks with their stubs, the upper check and stub being broken away to show the lower one.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in check-books; and the invention consists in a novel arrangement of checks and stubs that, when folded together, will form a check-book which can be conveniently carried in the pocket, all as will be hereinafter fully described, and specically pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, A represents my improved check-book, composed of a series of checks, a, and alternate check-stubs b.

In forming the book A, I use the Ordinar f blank check with stub connected at one end, and having a transverse row of perforations, c, by which the check can he readily removed or torn from the stub. l These checks and stubs are arranged in pairs, with one check and stub face up and the other face down and reversed, so that the stub of one check projects over the next check, all as clearly shown in Fig. 2. This arrangement is continued until the book is iinished. The checks and stubs are then secured together in the usual and well-known manner 4o throughout the entire book, so that in opening it to iill out a check the cheek will always be face up on the right-hand side and the stub face up on the left-hand side ofthe book.

I am aware that a check-book provided with stub-sheets having stub-blanks on both sides thereol secured between alternate pairs of two separate check-sheets is old, and also a hook consisting ofalternate stub and check leaves is old, and such I do not wish to be understood as claiming, broadly, as of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein -described pocket check-book, composed ofthe ordinary checks with attached stubs, said checks, with their attached stubs, arranged in pairs, with one check and its stub face up and the other face down and reversed, with the stub of one check projecting over the next check, the checks and their stubs hound together and folded, whereby the checks and stubs alternate throughout the book, with the check always face up on the right-hand and the stub face up on the left-hand side of' book when opened to lill up a check, as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of May, 1880.

CHARLES B. PERRIGO.

Witnesses:

H. E. HADLEY, C. G. BRADsHAw. 

